evrgladesbasser

A lot of people missing the point here.... you can now get a scholarship... for fishing! I hope someone who really wants to go to college but can't afford to gets in on this, what a great story that would make... "Young man fishes his way through college"

Nice catch!

that's funny.. and yes I had luck.. on Senkos

Soft plastics have always been my go-to bait no matter what the conditions...... I always have had luck. I'm in the opposite boat as you, so to speak, just recently starting experimenting with jigs, cranks, and spinners. Caught a few on cranks, several bites with no lands on the spinners, and nothing on jigs yet.

nice fish man...

Congratulations! Your hard "work" paid off.

I see said the blind man, must be a generation gap. Stick baits to me are long slender hard lures, both floating prop and shallow diving types. Senko's are slow sinking soft plastics that can be presented with several techniques; unweighted and weighted rigs. When bass are striking a reaction lure and size of the bass are what you want; keep fishing until the bit stops. Now go back over the same area with the slower Senko rigged however you like. The Senko has it's own built in action as it sinks and this takes a degree of patients , that isn't easy when you are used to fishing faster and want to cover a lot of water. WRB Good call on the "generation gap". I used to call a senko a stick bait as well, have learned a lot since those days...

Fished this fashion in the everglades on cinco de mayo... conditions very similar and had decent luck. Someone else mentioned being quiet... couldn't agree more. I like to downsize everything on a day like this and land my cast as gently as possible, working super slow through lily pads and around structure.

I have caught several mudfish recently while fishing for bass with a 4" white senko....

"A bass's life expectancy is also affected by water temperature. The higher the average year-round temperature of a lake, the shorter the average life. A northern largemouth bass might normally reach an age of ten or eleven years if never hooked, while a deep-south bass would only average (if never caught) seven to eight years." from "The Behavior and Habits of Largemouth Bass" by William K. Johnke. A really good article I found free online you can google it I can't post the link cause I'm to newbie

Fished the Gulp! worms vs the Senko on a recent trip... only noticable difference to me was the fish held on just a little longer with Gulp!. As for size of fish or number of hits.... no difference